puppets

Do you believe in magic? The creative types of downtown Troy certainly do, and as proof, they present Queen Mab’s Enchanted City, a free “steampunk-inspired street fair for the whole family” on Saturday (Oct. 4), ...

It’s a cinematic spectacle, the kind of theatrical event usually reserved for Cameron Mackintosh-style musical extravaganzas, last seen on the Proctors mainstage in the mammoth Les Miz. But this time it wasn’t a musical—although there’s ...

Avenue Q is a musical triumph: a feel-good, laugh-out-loud, surreal hallucination. See it. It’s still playing off-Broadway in Manhattan, where it played on Broadway for six years after starting as an off-Broadway hipster affair. It’s ...

Audrey Hepburn personified the zeitgeist as the 1950s equivalent of today’s “pixie girl,” and generation after generation has continued to identify with her image. Yet the Dutch-born gamine did have rivals, and the best of ...

On the off chance that you, too, got sucked into watching the documentary about international star ventriloquist-comic Jeff Dunham, I’m No Dummy (get it? get it?) at two in the morning last week, you probably ...

Many of us have fond memories of the former Firlefanz Gallery on Lark Street in Albany, and of challenging, dramatic performances over the years by the still-vibrant Firlefanz Puppets company. You can rekindle those memories—or ...

In the 20th century, two of the last unexplored frontiers were at the top and bottom of the world: the Arctic and Antarctic. Much misery was endured to explore these icy, unforgiving regions; few suffered ...

In Dark Matters, the work to be performed at Jacob’s Pillow by the “sensational” Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM company, a lonely artist creates a loose-limbed puppet. From the moment of creation, things don’t go so ...

There’s a symbolically overt scene in The Beaver in which teenage Porter Black (Anton Yelchin) plasters over the dozens of Post-It Notes on his wall with a portable graffiti mural painted by his girlfriend, Norah ...

It begins with a mea culpa, of sorts. Though Steamer No. 10 Theatre, the “little theatre that could,” is in its 20th year of operation, my visit for the Monday performance of the Tanglewood Marionettes’ ...